A Fayetteville man fleeing a deputy in a stolen vehicle didn’t get very far Tuesday afternoon when he crashed into a school bus on Ga. Highway 92 south near HiLo Road, police said.

The Fayette County School System is getting more aggressive in making sure only Fayette County residents attend its schools.

The Fayette County varsity boys basketball team practices before heading into their final four games of the season.

What’s the best way to get out the message of the many accomplishments of the Fayette County School System?

Peachtree City residents, you can still choose your own trash pick-up provider.

Peachtree City will not be adopting the monopoly franchise model for trash collection, the City Council decided last Thursday night.

Critics say a bill under consideration in the Georgia legislature could have drastic effects locally by making it cost-prohibitive to enforce zoning restrictions such as setbacks, buffers and tree preservation ordinances.

Peachtree City residents will have to fork over $12 every five years to register their golf carts, thanks to a vote of the City Council Thursday night.

The Peachtree City Council approved a residential rezoning Thursday night that will put 23 single family homes on an 8.45-acre tract in the northwest corner of the city.

The Fayetteville City Council passed a rezoning request at its monthly meeting last Thursday.

It came from Brent Scarbrough to rezone 18.98 acres located at Ga. Highway 314 and White Road. It was changed from C-3, Highway Commercial, to DR-15, One and Two Family Residential homes. The development will be the site of the 60-home Grove Park subdivision, slated for marketing to home buyers 55 years and older.

The Fayette County School System voted Monday night to surplus nearly 100 acres of property it recently purchased.

School spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach confirmed the system closed on 129 acres last week at Inman Road and Ga. Highway 92, south of Fayetteville. The system paid $2.9 million, or $22,500 an acre.

Thanks to an alert citizen, Fayette County deputies were able to arrest a 17-year-old and three juveniles on several burglary charges early Sunday afternoon on the north end of the county, police said.

Peachtree City residents wanting more information about the widening of Ga. Highway 74 South can attend an open house hosted by the Georgia Department of Transportation on Thursday, Feb. 2.

Folks in Fayetteville, Tyrone and Senoia will be seeing a big boost for certain downtown projects thanks to some considerable state assistance.

The votes are in and the winners have been announced in the First Annual Fayette Festival of Lights.

Glendalough Manor wins the business category, and Crystal Swygert of Fayetteville takes home the residential prize. All of the contestants did a fabulous job decorating their homes and the tour was a great success, according to organizers.

National Board Certification, the highest credential in the teaching profession, has been earned by 14 of Fayette’s finest educators bringing the system-wide total to 68.

If state Senator Ronnie Chance has his way, kids needing to say goodbye to a parent heading overseas for military service will get an excused absence from school for up to five days.

In honor of the “Year of the Dog,” the Peachtree City Dog Park Association will host a Chinese New Year celebration Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at the dog park.

A local program to help elementary children get “caught up” in reading and math will be presented this month to a group of national educators at a seminar in Atlanta.

Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) with support from Mercedes-Benz of South Atlanta and Mercedes-Benz dealers nationwide announced that it will make $1.5 million in scholarship funding available to students who are the first generation in their families to attend college.

The following arrests were reported by law enforcement agencies for the past two weeks. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law:

Peachtree City police are looking for a Marietta man whose fingerprints link him to the scene of a daytime burglary in the Planterra Ridge subdivision in early December.

Palmetto council members Jan. 16 gave their approval to an intergovernmental agreement supporting a March vote in Coweta County on a proposed 2007 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).

Fairburn cites 2005 crime stats

For Fairburn cops and the community it was a pretty good year.

Though experiencing continued record growth at nearly 10 percent during 2005, incidents of crime rose only slightly. Calculated at a 3.88 percent increase, serious crimes are actually on the decline from recent years.

The votes have long been counted and re-elected and newly elected city officials in Palmetto, Union City and Fairburn have been sworn in and are busy conducting the business of their respective cities.

The extraordinary setting called Serenbe yielded a special mixture of community and music Jan. 15 with an Afternoon of Bluegrass, the first of a series of musical and storytelling performances sponsored by the Serenbe Arts and Cultural Council.

Alejandro Jimenez is a man with a dream.

Along with his wife Mercedes, he has opened South Fulton's first Hispanic supermarket, in Hudson Plaza in Fairburn. No small corner store, Cuatro Caminos Supermarket is a 13,000-square-foot full-service market.

Thursday’s Tyrone Town Council meeting got off to a fiery start as a resident accused the council of selective enforcement of the town’s ordinances.

The residents in the Ashland Trail subdivision hope speedy commuters will soon be slowing down.

Students at LaFayette Kids World in Tyrone collected items to send to U.S. soldiers that were fighting in the Middle East. The biggest box was sent to Randy Hansen, a Peachtree City resident fighting with the Georgia Army National Guard unit as a member of the Echo Troop 108 Cavalry.

The Fayette County School System will vote Monday night to surplus nearly 100 acres of property it recently purchased.